Philippe Malbranche

Philippe Malbranche is the research programme manager at CEA-INE. He received his engineering degree at the Ecole Centrale de Paris. Philippe started working in 1980 in the South Pacific on rural electrification projects with renewable energies. Afterward, he joined successively the French Department of Energy, Photowatt, the French PV manufacturer; and CEA-GENEC, a research laboratory focused on PV systems, which he managed until 2004. Since then, he helped in setting up INES, the new French Solar Energy Research Institute, which now hosts 200 researchers and covers various fields: PV cells, PV systems, solar thermal systems and zero-energy buildings. Philippe is also a member of the Steering Committee of the European Photovoltaic Technology Platform.